When I was a homeschooled kid back in the 90's, we were allowed to watch tv in the afternoons after our school work was done. We LOVED Ozzy and Harriet, Dobie Gillis, Hopalong Cassidy, The Real McCoys, and Annie Oakley. There are probably a couple of others that I can't remember; it seemed like the local station would cycle through the old series. I miss that kind of tv.
No. They had access to the same research I had access to, and in the case of medical professionals, they often have access to more research. So, no. The only people I will forgive are the elderly and the legitimately stupid who truly had no idea what they were doing and who had no way to educate themselves.
Another vaccine. An existing meningitis vaccine was used as the "placebo" for the covid vaccines in at least one study.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31604-4/fulltext
You are fortunate that your circle hasn't seen much harm. In my relatively small circle, we have had a sudden death, a couple of fast growing cancers, repeated hospital visits (my husband's grandma's kidneys stopped working a few days after a mystery shot she received at a routine visit), emergency open heart surgery and two people with strokes (one of them was the guy who required open heart surgery a week after his first shot; he had a stroke shortly after the second).
Ours went up by $800 a month when our new insurance year started in Dec.
Edit: This is for a policy through my husband's employer. The deductible is already pretty high ($4000) and we have an HSA to go along with it. We opted to take me off (left him and the kids on) and I found a policy for around $400 a month for myself with an even higher deductible ($7000 I think).
If anybody wants to fancy up their popcorn during this oh so interesting time in history....here's a nifty way to do it (minus husks and unpopped kernels and whatnot). My MIL makes this stuff every year and brings it to us when they visit and we always eat it like we're starving to death.
I think it differs by state. In AR, we go to the state health department website, watch a propaganda video, fill out a form and have it notarized, then email or mail it in. They will mail a letter within a few business days that your daycare or school will put on file. We have to do it every year, but I have never had any issues getting the exemption (I usually choose philosophical and they don't ask why) or getting the school to accept it.
Prayers for your safety and the safety of your children!
Vitamin D supplementation is super important for me. I try to have my D levels checked at least once a year; I am almost always low, even with supplements, and I can always tell when I'm reaching critical levels because every exposure to everyone leads to me being sick with something. I've started taking a 10,000 IU supplement with a K2 supplement everyday which has helped immensely this winter. Quercetin, vitamin d supplements, and zinc have been helpful for my somewhat immune compromised husband.
Also, it's not a supplement, but I find that eating massive amounts of tzaziki when everyone around me is sick keeps me well. Plain greek yogurt, tons of raw garlic, raw cucumber, lemon juice, and olive oil. I smell awful (probably why the germs stay away), but I feel great, lol.
I just finished a decent book I found at Goodwill called "The Smile" that was loosely (and fictionally) based on the model for Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. It's actually a young adult book, but I usually prefer those because in addition to prereading books I will allow my little people to read someday, they're devoid of smut and I don't really have to think about them (like a sitcom kinda). It was quite the deviation from my usual post apocalyptic fiction which I currently have no stomach for.
I picked up Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" yesterday and read the first chapter, but, even though I remember it being a really good book (I read it as a teenager), I don't think I have the mental fortitude to read it right now. My brain is tired lately and reading anything difficult that isn't research just isn't happening.
My 14 year old has hinted that she wants me to find the Dune books that are somewhere around here, so maybe I'll reread them along with her in the near future.
Nice! Blood sugar is actually the main reason I started taking it. My A1C is too high for comfort (supposedly I'm predisposed to T2 diabetes due to gestational diabetes in one of my pregnancies), so I thought I'd give it a shot along with some improvements in my diet and see if I can keep it from going higher. Hopefully, I'll see some weight loss as well.
I've been researching berberine, it seems to have lots of nifty effects, including reducing cholesterol and inflammation.
Edit: Reducing cholesterol isn't the right way to say that. It helps your body metabolize lipids and whatnot, so if I remember correctly, it increases good cholesterol and reduces bad.
But I bet if that parent took the baby back to the doctor and told them it started a few hours after a vaccine, the doctor would vehemently disagree that it was vaccine related, tell the parent it was a coincidence, and proceed to refer the baby to a neurologist who would also disagree that it was vaccine related. No matter who the parent talked to in the medical field, they would most likely all agree that the baby would have started displaying these symptoms on the same day and in the same with or without vaccine poison.
Pediatricians go out of their way to scare new mamas about diarrhea and rashes and make them seem like awful disease side effects are more common than vaccine side effects. Back when I worked, a terrified coworker sent me an IM shortly after her daughters vaccinations (2 month I think) because her baby was crying uncontrollably and seemed to be having stomach pain; she knew beforehand that the rotavirus vaccine has caused intussusception in some kids, but she did it anyway because the doctor scared her about the baby getting severe diarrhea from rotavirus.
I think I'm gonna put some version of this on a tshirt and give it to my mom...she only dresses in politically provocative attire to attend family gatherings; she has siblings on both sides of the aisle and her parents only care who says Bible verses better (they LOVED Asa-hole Hutchison as our governor).
I've read the Bible through at least once (and I'm working on my second full read-through), but I don't read it any particular order. I'm the kind of person who needs to see progress to keep going (not great, but I'm working on it), so I start with the short books. When I finish a book, I highlight it in the table of contents. When I get to a long book that I can't seem to stay focused on, I read two books at the same time, a chapter of each for each reading session (usually an Old Testament and New Testament book). And, I flip over to Psalms and Proverbs when I need a quick spiritual boost or when I'm having trouble knowing what to pray. The learning will happen naturally as you read.
"I now have a rule that my 12 year old can't talk to me or her dad about politics. I let her friends guide her opinions." Is it possible to be more effing stupid?!?! Those aren't real people commenting, they're just trolls, right? RIGHT?!?!
All of them should be denied. Every. Single. One.
Side note: I allowed the Vit K shot with all three of mine, all three became jaundiced (one of the side effects in the package insert). If I had it to do all over again, or if the Lord saw fit to bless me with another baby, I honestly don't know if we'd even do Vit K.
Ya'll are giving me so much hope for the little things! I'm cautiously optimistic this morning...overnight it seems like they both turned a corner for the better. They've both figured out the bottle (and they are EFFICIENT!), we finally figured out the way they like to be held while drinking, and both have gained a good amount of weight. I'm praying they'll go on to have long happy lives!
Thank you! I have been feeding them kitten milk replacement, I was able to pick that up before my husband brought them home the other day, and we have been wiping their little hineys to make them pee and poop. That's really awesome that your hand raised kitty lived so long! I've been afraid that if we did manage to help them live, they wouldn't be very healthy since they didn't have much (if any) mama milk, so that makes me feel a lot better. It sounds like we're on the right track, so I'll just keep on keeping on!
Her new campaign slogan is "No one can beat me."